From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: Petr Mladek <pmladek@suse.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de>,
Sergey Senozhatsky <senozhatsky@chromium.org>
Subject: [PATCH] printk: Use two irq_works instead per-CPU
Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2026 12:38:32 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260911103832.w6C8cT4L@linutronix.de> (raw)
In commit b845b517b5e37 ("printk: robustify printk") initially got its
delayed wake up which is today implemented via the irq_work. Back then
it was a variable which was assigned to 1 if a pending wake up was
waiting. This variable was checked on each timer tick. Therefore it
makes sense to assign a per-CPU variable with this task to avoid cache
line bouncing when each CPU reads the variable on each timer tick
simultaneously.
Today we have a irq_work which is enqueued onto a list and handled if it
has work items assigned. This list is already per-CPU.
We could replace the per-CPU irq_work and the per-CPU printk_pending with
two irq_work structs: One for PRINTK_PENDING_WAKEUP and the other for
PRINTK_PENDING_OUTPUT.
While unrolling the conditions in __wake_up_klogd() it becomes obvious
that PRINTK_PENDING_WAKEUP is always passed as an argument but never
checked. The return value wq_has_sleeper() of does not really matter
it's sole purpose is to enforce the needed memory barrier.
Redo the irq_work by:
- use one irq_work (pending_wakeup_work) for klogd wakes. Schedule it
only if there is a sleeper waiting.
- use one irq_work (&pending_output_work) for output printing. Schedule
it only if PRINTK_PENDING_OUTPUT passed.
- Drop unused PRINTK_PENDING_WAKEUP.
- Remove the printk_percpu_data_ready() check because per-CPU data is no
longer used by __wake_up_klogd().
Worst case is defer_console_output() where two irq_work are scheduled but
those get processed one after the other during the HZ tick so it
shouldn't get worse.
Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de>
---
kernel/printk/printk.c | 55 ++++++++++++++++++------------------------
1 file changed, 24 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-)
diff --git a/kernel/printk/printk.c b/kernel/printk/printk.c
index 3fcdf4b4e2e53..7c5a220e84323 100644
--- a/kernel/printk/printk.c
+++ b/kernel/printk/printk.c
@@ -4593,37 +4593,29 @@ bool pr_flush(int timeout_ms, bool reset_on_progress)
/*
* Delayed printk version, for scheduler-internal messages:
*/
-#define PRINTK_PENDING_WAKEUP 0x01
-#define PRINTK_PENDING_OUTPUT 0x02
+#define PRINTK_PENDING_OUTPUT 0x01
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(int, printk_pending);
-
-static void wake_up_klogd_work_func(struct irq_work *irq_work)
+static void pending_wake_fn(struct irq_work *irq_work)
{
- int pending = this_cpu_xchg(printk_pending, 0);
-
- if (pending & PRINTK_PENDING_OUTPUT) {
- if (force_legacy_kthread()) {
- if (printk_legacy_kthread)
- wake_up_interruptible(&legacy_wait);
- } else {
- if (console_trylock())
- console_unlock();
- }
- }
-
- if (pending & PRINTK_PENDING_WAKEUP)
- wake_up_interruptible(&log_wait);
+ wake_up_interruptible(&log_wait);
}
-static DEFINE_PER_CPU(struct irq_work, wake_up_klogd_work) =
- IRQ_WORK_INIT_LAZY(wake_up_klogd_work_func);
+static void pending_output_fn(struct irq_work *irq_work)
+{
+ if (force_legacy_kthread()) {
+ if (printk_legacy_kthread)
+ wake_up_interruptible(&legacy_wait);
+ } else {
+ if (console_trylock())
+ console_unlock();
+ }
+}
+
+struct irq_work pending_wakeup_work = IRQ_WORK_INIT_LAZY(pending_wake_fn);
+struct irq_work pending_output_work = IRQ_WORK_INIT_LAZY(pending_output_fn);
static void __wake_up_klogd(int val)
{
- if (!printk_percpu_data_ready())
- return;
-
/*
* It is not allowed to call this function when console irq_work
* is blocked.
@@ -4643,11 +4635,12 @@ static void __wake_up_klogd(int val)
*
* This pairs with devkmsg_read:A and syslog_print:A.
*/
- if (wq_has_sleeper(&log_wait) || /* LMM(__wake_up_klogd:A) */
- (val & PRINTK_PENDING_OUTPUT)) {
- this_cpu_or(printk_pending, val);
- irq_work_queue(this_cpu_ptr(&wake_up_klogd_work));
- }
+ if (wq_has_sleeper(&log_wait)) /* LMM(__wake_up_klogd:A) */
+ irq_work_queue(&pending_wakeup_work);
+
+ if (val & PRINTK_PENDING_OUTPUT)
+ irq_work_queue(&pending_output_work);
+
preempt_enable();
}
@@ -4663,7 +4656,7 @@ static void __wake_up_klogd(int val)
*/
void wake_up_klogd(void)
{
- __wake_up_klogd(PRINTK_PENDING_WAKEUP);
+ __wake_up_klogd(0);
}
/**
@@ -4684,7 +4677,7 @@ void defer_console_output(void)
* New messages may have been added directly to the ringbuffer
* using vprintk_store(), so wake any waiters as well.
*/
- __wake_up_klogd(PRINTK_PENDING_WAKEUP | PRINTK_PENDING_OUTPUT);
+ __wake_up_klogd(PRINTK_PENDING_OUTPUT);
}
/**
--
2.55.0
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